Wonderful Tina!
Both the vision and the verbal.
"Wisdom from the end of the world?"
Stay safe you guys.
Stay at home Rick
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> PESO:
>
> I'm posting most of my immediate photos on FB because it's so much easier,
> but I want to pass along the interesting conversation we had with this guy:
>
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/164900138/large
>
> We just had the most interesting conversation with a camel-herder in his
> ger in the middle of the Gobi Dessert. He has a solar panel hooked up to a
> car battery with a satellite dish with over 100 TV channels. When we
> entered the ger, the whole family was watching an American movie dubbed in
> Mongolian. Tom mentioned that we watch almost no TV except the news and the
> father of the family said that the news was so depressing that they had to
> balance it with something cheerful. Of course, the talk turned to Trump.
> The herder believes that Trump will build the wall between the US and
> Mexico and that will anger Central and South America so much that they will
> stop trading with the US and only trade with China. China will replace the
> US as most powerful nation. He grew up in Mongolia during Soviet Socialism
> and says you cannot trust Russia. He said that with Russia and the US there
> was always a wolf and a rabbit. Now Putin is the wolf and Trump is the
> rabbit. I love travel!
>
> That's it!
>
> Tina
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